Data Science/Data Analytics Platform Engineer

Experienced data professional with a strong technical background and a passion for leveraging cutting-edge technologies to develop robust data and ML tools for uncovering actionable insights and guiding business decisions. Collaborating with product, marketing, engineering, and finance teams to ensure data quality, advise on key metrics, user behavior, and identify opportunities for product enhancement. Former Data Scientist with experience in delivering data applications, APIs, A/B testing design and analysis, and ETL solutions across various projects. Currently serving as a lead platform engineer specializing in building top-tier data pipelines with a focus on data quality and observability to unleash the full potential of ML/AI capabilities.

Sr. Manager, Analytics Engineer (Platform)

Pfizer

Remote, CA

2025 - 2023

Analytics Engineering Platform Lead

• Architecture/strategy lead for local development and platform support (Docker + Airflow)
• Security lead- Implemented pre-commit strategy for security scanning + Github Actions for push and PR scans of security leaks on platform
• Design/Implementation of architecture for DO/DQ strategy for at-rest and in-transit data quality
• Active mentoring of content developers for software development best practices and Agile principles on platform
• Primary backup to Director/TL
• Mentor and support for Git, Docker, Airflow, and other tooling in platform stack

Data Scientist

Avast/Smith Micro Software Inc.

Berkeley, CA

2023 - 2020

Data Scientist and Data Science Platform Lead

• Owner of Legacy workbench for experimentation and job automation using Python/R, AWS Kubes, cronjobs, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Data wrangling and pipe-lining for Dash boarding and ML modeling
• Lead collaborative effort to model customer behavior (supervised and unsupervised ML modeling)
• Design, plan, and construct a new Data Science Platform
• Build API’s to expose Data and ML models
• Dash-boarding of App Event and Subscription data (Amplitude, Shiny, R)
• Advise Product, Marketing, Engineering, Finance and Senior Leadership on KPI’s and app tracking
• A/B Testing, API deployment, custom visualization tooling/deployment, reporting
• Subscription KPI owner (Churn, LTV, Retention, etc. )

Sr. Business/Data Analyst

Macy’s Inc

San Francisco, CA

2019 - 2018

Lead Business Analyst/SME for marketing data migration project (IBM Coremetrics to Adobe Analytics)

• Perform data validation (SQL) in support of data engineering efforts
• Design and POC methods for leveraging new capabilities (data connections, API’s)
• Acted as engineer to develop an API client (JWT, OAuth 2.0, Curl, etc) using both R and Python

Sr. Data Analyst (Global Supply Chain Strategy)

Gap Inc

San Francisco, CA

2018 - 2014

Confidently interacted with senior leadership and provided subject mater expertise to the decision making process

• Responsible for reporting on multiple KPI’s as well as adhoc analysis
• Codified business logic into data attributes to support key business initiatives
• SME for data access and data availability for other Analysts, data scientists and visualization experts

Business Analyst (Agile)

Gap Tech

San Francisco, CA

2014 - 2012

Part of an Agile team working to develop and refine PO functionality

• Colab with BA’s and supply chain strategists
• Defined business context, story narrative, and acceptance criteria

Research Intern

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Huntsville, AL

2011 - 2009

Publishing member of an inductance study to investigate pulsed-inductive plasma accelerators for In-space propulsion applications

-Fabricated test articles and design robust methods for capturing inductance measurements of various conical coil designs using Excel, NI LabView, and Igor Pro -Designed and constructed methodology for study of a mass flow sensor for a liquid bismuth-fed hall thruster -Created a fiber-optic based, IR temperature sensing system. Analyzed and reported on data and control mechanisms

General Assembly

Machine Learning/Data Science Certification

San Francisco, CA

2017

Middle Tennessee State University

B.S Liberal Studies (Aerospace)

Murfreesboro, TN

2011